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Old 10-17-2011, 09:58 PM
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Originally Posted by buggyone View Post
Did someone actually see a person walking between the houses at around 5:30 am or just hear the noise of downspout being ripped out?

I find it hard to believe an animal - even a raccoon - would do that and take the downspout away.

But scrap aluminium does not have much value and the resale value on used downspouts would be very small.

Got me stumped.
Got us stumped, too. No one actually saw anyone, but a neighbor did hear noise, and for a number of minutes. She wasn't sure what she was hearing so she and her husband got up and looked around. Later in the morning, the gardener was walking around the house with Mom and they found the empty space where the downspout should have been. When the sheriff saw the area, he felt it was taken by a human and not an animal. Sooooo, who knows.